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    The Green Age of Asher Witherow

    By M. Allen Cunningham

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    Supplying a quarter of San Francisco’s coal, Nortonville of the 1860s-70s is a flourishing empire in small, seeming to promise unending prosperity and a better future. But beneath the vibrant work ethic of its Welch citizens lies an insidious network of superstitions.

    A missing boy first brings these dark undercurrents to light. Then young Asher Witherow falls under the spell of an unorthodox apprentice minister, stirring a whirlpool of suspicion and outrage. Soon Asher finds himself trapped in a nightmarish crucible, all the more excruciating because he himself could end it if he could only find the strength of will. This is a lesson the missing boy has taught him, and what he understands instinctively from the alluring Anna Flood, new to Nortonville, who with her raw sensuality and independence seems to offer some hope of redemption or even escape.

    In this powerful debut from a young writer of stunning talent, M. Allen Cunningham takes us into a time and place at once gritty and magical, when the future seems filled with promise but where the day’s labor is bone breaking, numbing and always dangerous.

    Gorgeously written, historically authentic, The Green Age of Asher Witherow is a novel of tested loyalties, of condemnation and redemption. The characters’ deep emotional lives are complex and vivid, fluctuating from the doomed to the transcendent. As he unpacks his heart, Asher comes to realize that all his early traumas have somehow bonded him to the land surrounding Mount Diablo and infused his life with an inward wealtha treasure at which we can only wonder.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnbridled Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2005
    ISBN9781936071395
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    M. Allen Cunningham

    M. Allen Cunningham is the author of the novel The Green Age of Asher Witherow (a #1 IndieNext Pick), the novel Lost Son (about the life and work of the poet Rilke), the illustrated limited-edition story collection Date of Disappearance, and two volumes of nonfiction, The Honorable Obscurity Handbook and The Flickering Page: The Reading Experience in Digital Times. His stories and essays have appeared in many publications including The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Oregonian, and the New York Times. His short fiction has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and three of his stories were featured in live performance by the New Short Fiction Series of Beverly Hills. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler calls Cunningham “a lushly talented young writer,” ForeWord Magazine has named him “one of America’s most promising voices,” and he was cited in the Dzanc Books list of 20 Writers to Watch. The recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Literary Arts, and Yaddo, Cunningham lives in Portland, Oregon, where he writes occasional book reviews and cultural commentary, leads public discussions for the Oregon Humanities council, and is at work on two new books. Visit www.mallencunningham.com

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